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Breaking: Lawmakers in near fisticuffs as Reps reject South East Devt Commission

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday in a rowdy session rejected a bill that seeks to establish the South East Development Commission. The rejection of the bill followed a heated debate that divided the lawmakers on regional base. The lawmakers took about one and half hours in

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Breaking: Policeman dies in NDDC MD’s convoy road accident

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

The convoy of the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Nsima U. Ekere, has been involved in a road accident. The incident, which occurred along the Calabar-Itu Road, when a trailer ran into the pilot vehicle carrying policemen attached to the NDDC Managing Director, who was on his way to Calabar to receive the Acting President, […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

UK police arrest woman over alleged Liberian war torture

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

The British police on Thursday said that they had arrested a 51-year-old woman in London on suspicion of torture during the civil war in Liberia over 25 years ago. The police said that the woman was arrested in the east of the capital and searches were being carried out at two addresses in east London […]

BUSINESS NEWS

FADAMA designed to boost Nigeria’s food production – World Bank

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

Dr Adetunji Oredipe, ‎the World Bank Task Team Leader, says the Graduate Unemployment Youths Support Scheme (GUYSS) will enhance food production and create job opportunities in Nigeria. Oredipe told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that GUYSS was a new initiative of the World Bank-assisted FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) programme. He said […]

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FG to establish special schools for married women

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

The Federal Government will establish special schools for women who abandoned school to get married, Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, has said. “All women that married at early age will have the opportunity to continue with their education from their husbands houses. “The schools will be in two categories so as to avoid problems […]

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Africa lost $50billion to Western countries every year-UN

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says an estimated 50 billion dollars leaves the shore of the continent illicitly mostly to the Western countries, every year. Adeyinka Adeyemi, a senior adviser at ECA, told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that illicit financial flow had serious negative development impacts […]